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Microsoft Exec Says, "You'll Miss Vista" 273

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 24, 2009 @04:45PM from the cold-day-in-hell dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "'Years from now, when you've moved on to Windows 7, you'll look back at Windows Vista fondly. You'll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws.' That's the opinion of Steve Guggenheimer, vice president of the OEM division at Microsoft. 'I think people will look back on Vista after the Windows 7 release and realize that there were actually a bunch of good things there,' Guggenheimer said in a recent interview. 'So it'll actually be interesting to see in two years what the perception is of Vista.' A dissenting opinion comes from Bob Nitrio, president of system builder Ranvest Associates, doesn't believe organizations that skipped Vista will ever regret their decision. 'I don't think for a second that people are suddenly going to love Windows 7 so much that they will experience deep pangs of regret for not having adopted Vista,' said Nitrio. If I had to bet, I'd go with Bob's take on it." My first thought was, Steve meant Windows 7 is designed to be virtually unusable as payback for all the complaints about Vista, but I might be biased.

Comment Stop, Hammer time! (Score 1) 403

by linuxg0d on Thursday June 18, 2009 @10:23AM (#28373717) Attached to: Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD

I really don't think that it's important that Hard Drives are at an all time low.

Would you still buy an older iPod from back in 2005? Or would you go for the newer iPod models?

It isn't because something is at an all time low that it makes it right to keep investing in it. Keep in mind that demand drives the market and that demand drives the advancement of said markets.

Technically, based on this article, I should go out and buy myself a walk-man, some parachute pants and a Hyundai Pony.

Stop, Hammer time!

Comment IRC (Score 4, Funny) 179

by linuxg0d on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @03:14PM (#28364893) Attached to: Weather Balloons To Provide Broadband In Africa

[1131] Disconnected: Balloon Service Interrupted. Try again later.

Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @11:32AM from the intentionally-not-left-blank dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Steganography is the art of hiding a message in such a way that only the sender and receiver realize it is there. (By contrast, cryptography disguises the content of a message but makes no attempt to hide it.) The central problem for steganographers is how much data can be hidden without being detected. But the complexity of this problem has meant it has been largely ignored. Now two computer scientists (one working for Google) have made a major theoretical breakthrough by tackling the problem in the same way that the electrical engineer Claude Shannon calculated the capacity of an ordinary communications channel in the 1940s. In Shannon's theory, a transmission is considered successful if the decoder properly determines which message the encoder has sent. In the stego-channel, a transmission is successful if the decoder properly determines the sent message without anybody else detecting its presence (abstract). Studying a stego-channel in this way leads to some counter-intuitive results: for example, in certain circumstances, doubling the number of algorithms looking for hidden data can increase the capacity of the steganographic channel"

Comment Nice to see... (Score 0) 305

by linuxg0d on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @12:56PM (#25466983) Attached to: Indian Moon Mission Launched

... India is finally catching up to the rest of the world.

Worst Christmas Ever For Gadgets? 305

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @08:58AM from the please-santa dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "CNet says this will be the most disappointing Christmas ever for gadget-lovers. The Playstation 3 is delayed across most of the world, the Zune MP3 player is cancelled for everyone outside the US, Vista won't be out for home users before the big day, and even Final Fantasy XII won't reach Europe in time. From the article: 'It's enough to make you slit your wrists with the shards of a smashed Christmas tree bauble... Santa fails to deliver on almost all of his Yuletide promises. Most of the major technologies that were supposed to be ready for purchase have been delayed until next year.' The writer goes on to suggest phrases to use over Christmas dinner when the offending companies' products are mentioned. To reduce the pain of a Zune-less party, he suggests remarking: 'Imagine the stability and usability of Windows migrated to an MP3 player. In short, imagine a small portable version of Hell.'"

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